BUSI 1323 Leadership in Organisations

University of Greenwich (UOG)
Bachelor of Arts (Hons) Business Management (Top Up)
ASSIGNMENT / PROJECT COVER SHEET(to be completed individually by student)
UOG ID Number 001143731
Course Specialization
(*Please delete whichever is not applicable)
*Marketing and Sales
Subject Code/Name BUSI 1323/ Leadership in Organisations
Assignment Title Individual Report (80%)
Lecturer/Supervisor Ms. Natasha
Word count
DECLARATION
I, the above named student, confirm that by submitting, or causing the attached assignment
to be submitted, I have not plagiarized any other person’s work in this assignment and
except where appropriately acknowledged, this assignment is my own work, has been
expressed in my own words, and has not previously been submitted for assessment.
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Table of Contents
I/ Introduction:................................................................................................................................3
II/ Stage 1: Reflection on past experiences and role models.................................................3
1/ Description of yourself:.........................................................................................................3
2/ Role models:..........................................................................................................................4
3/ Shaping my view of leadership:..........................................................................................5
4/ My past experience as leading a group:...........................................................................5
5/ Aspects of your current leadership abilities, choices of behaviours, motivations you
value most:.................................................................................................................................6
III/ Stage 2: Reflections on group interactions.........................................................................7
1/ Description of your group activities in class:....................................................................7
2/ My motivations vs Motivation of Others – How to align?................................................8
3/ Has my goal in Stage 1 been fulfilled?..............................................................................9
IV/ Stage 3: I want to be this kind of leader..............................................................................9
V/ Conclusion:.............................................................................................................................10
References..................................................................................................................................11
Appendix: use your entries here to inform your reflective report above. Drawing on
these entries will not be considered plagiarism.....................................................................12
1/ How and when do I submit my weekly journal entries?................................................12
2/ Table of descriptors of team members contributions....................................................13
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I/ Introduction:
After studying Leadership in Organization taught by Ms. Natasha, I have gained good
knowledge about this subject, and also gained more experience to improve my
leadership skills. About the definition of leadership, it is the achievement of goals
through the guidance and direction of human assistants. A leader is the person who
effectively coordinates his or her human collaborators to achieve specific goals. A great
leader is someone who can take the lead in a number of situations day after day, year
after year. [ CITATION Pre04 \l 1033 ]. According to Hogan & Kaiser (2005), it can be said
that leadership is one of the vital topics in the social sciences – humanities for two
reasons. First, leadership is the secret to organizational success since it addresses the
issue of how to coordinate collective effort. Organizations (governments, companies,
colleges, hospitals, and armies) succeed and flourish when they have strong leadership.
When organization excel, their employees' financial and psychological well-being kinh.
Second, and most importantly from a moral standpoint, bad leaders inflict awful
suffering on those who fall under their control. Unfortunately, in life, it is all too popular
to see bad leaders trigger a great deal of suffering.
II/ Stage 1: Reflection on past experiences and role models
1/ Description of yourself:
Currently, I consider myself having a combination of qualities of a leader, followers and
outsiders, but the leadership portion has a lower ratio than the other two. I see myself
as someone who is good at giving opinions, listening and agreeing with members'
opinions if they are reasonable, and communicating with members. But I am not really
good at planning and strategizing properly in assigning tasks to each member and
performing my own tasks; besides, I am not too good at creating a little pressure to
push the members to do the job quickly and effectively. In addition, I often get in the
situation of understanding tasks quite quickly and giving opinions, but I do not know
where to start in order to implement them.
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2/ Role models:
To be honest, I have many role models as people with good leadership skills, from my
family members, my friends, my teachers, to celebrities. But what they have in common,
is that they are more of transformational leaders, which means individuals are changed
and transformed by transformational leadership. To put it another way, transformational
leadership is the ability to motivate people to want to better, change, and be guided. It
entails evaluating associate motivations, meeting their needs, and valuing them. As a
result, a transformational leader will help the organization succeed by valuing its
employees. [ CITATION Far02 \l 1033 ] An example is from a friend of mine who is currently
studying Business Administration at Ton Duc Thang University in Ho Chi Minh city.
Each time there are group activities such as discussion in class, or group assignments;
he has always been a leader, official or unofficial. Unofficial is that there are times my
friend's groups do not have a leader, or there are other people being the main leaders;
but my friend still leads the group through things like assigning tasks and time to each
member, or members asking him if they do not know how to do something, even
sometimes he has to motivate the members of the same groups; or he would be the
completer of the groups. These are things a leader needs to know and do, but it can be
due to the fact that other members have no experience in leading, or some of them lack
responsibility for the assigned work, including those who are the main leaders at that
time, causing my friend to automatically take over the team. To me, my friend has
charismatic and inspiration leadership. Charismatic leadership (Idealized influence) is
demonstrated by leaders who serve as role models, build a sense of identity with a
common mission, and instill confidence and trust in followers by overcoming challenges,
while Inspiration (Inspirational motivation) is described as motivating and encouraging
followers to embrace and accomplish difficult goals and missions with zeal. [ CITATION
Lie10 \l 1033 ]. Perhaps, except that he is a perfectionist and a bit traditional in his way of
thinking, and he is not too good at speaking so sometimes he can unintentionally offend
the members; he is a very good leader.
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